What You Should Learn Before Learning Cybersecurity - Updated 2022
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An I.T. nerd who wants to think he is good at cybersecurity but really is just a script kiddie.
Have you been looking to learn Cybersecurity but you’re unsure where to start from?
Here’s a great guide on where to start!
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yeah i would just suggest the it
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fundamentals that's what you should
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learn all right so if you're an
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individual who wants to get started in
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the it or cyber security industry and
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you're wondering where should i start or
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what should i learn before in today's
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video topic i will be addressing my
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personal opinion on what you should
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learn why you should learn what you
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should learn and where you should learn
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alright so by now you should know it's
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the ic fundamentals that's what i think
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you should learn you can go ahead and
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click off this video but if you want a
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little bit more detail you can continue
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on what exactly are the it fundamentals
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well in my opinion they outline a few
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different surrounding categories
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including hardware which are the
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physical parts of a computer and
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computing devices you have the software
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which is a suite of tools and data which
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you know tell the computer how to work
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including operating systems software
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applications and more so think about
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like a windows 10 or linux then you have
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networking which is the exchange and
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transportation of data between computing
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devices so understanding how that works
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applications which is computer software
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or programs used to carry out specific
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tasks you know such as word processing
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or editing or email clients and then you
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have the security basics my favorite
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right understanding the added elements
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on top of the listed uh elements or
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categories that i just
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outlined now i personally believe if you
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started from the very beginning you're
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going to set yourself up for a better
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success and i'll tell you that reason in
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a moment now while learning the it
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fundamentals it's important to keep in
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mind some essential concepts and skills
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required within the it industry and this
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includes skills such as configuring and
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troubleshooting
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just like anything that you learn in
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school you gotta first understand the
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basics of course you could just throw
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yourself deep into the woods and have no
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idea what's going on and maybe yes you
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could complete the problem but let's
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just say you want to complete some
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complex math equation well you have to
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know the basics of the symbols
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subtraction addition such as this nice
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complex math equation i think you
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i don't know how to do this
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you know those or if you want to get a
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little spicy and you want to mix some
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elements together you got to know the
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periodic table i think i don't really
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know i'm not a chemistry major well the
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same goes for it in my opinion you get
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the point now sure you could provision a
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kali linux vm and you could use john
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ripper and start cracking those facebook
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passwords don't actually do that or you
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know you can throw yourself deep into
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the woods of a project and sometimes
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that method works but the question
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becomes if you have no technological or
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any i.t skills background how do you
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know you know what to secure in the
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context of cyber security if you don't
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even know how the technology tool
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principle concept works right if you
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can't understand what a layer 2 switch
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does from you know a high level overview
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how do you know you're going to need to
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apply port security you know in the
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context of a layer 2 switch well you
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won't know because you don't know how a
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layer 2 switch works in the high level
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and that's why i suggest the it
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fundamentals it's great way to get the
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basics down you can build those
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foundational skills and then you can
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throw yourself into the woods of you
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know kali linux if you want to
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there are hundreds of resources out
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there both free and affordable alright
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one moment of self promo you can skip to
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this time stamp if you don't care about
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this but there are free courses i have
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out there one is on udemy it's a
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complete introduction to cyber security
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right so this is going to be a very high
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level overview of cyber security in i.t
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and we address some of the very basics
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such as
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hardware and networking devices so why
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not just give away the course for free
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if you're watching this in the next
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three days of this upload you can go
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sign up for it
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for free but i do also have another
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course it's more of a very much so
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practical hands-on course that i had
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released last year and i added some a
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few updates to it this is a great course
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to get started and now enough for the
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cell promo all right so some platforms
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include free code cam they have a plenty
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of crash courses out there udemy has
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plenty of basic it courses you have
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plenty of youtube crash courses i'll
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leave some that i think are noteworthy
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including ones that are released from
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google itself which is a great way to
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start a humble bundle which is a book
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provider in the form of ebooks that you
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can see and find if there are any
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bundles out there one more thing to note
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and that is three is a great place to
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start with my beginners course it's a
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lot of theory not so much practical or
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hands-on you gotta get started with
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understanding the concepts
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one thing to note is to have a hands-on
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practical approach once you've maybe
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started some of those basics i have a
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resources page with a complete list of
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projects you can just check out it's all
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free you don't have to worry about
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paying
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and you can just look at the different
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resources project ideas and how to go
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about solving those projects on that
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website this video has been short i hope
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it's been useful and helpful i did this
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video a few years ago and i thought i
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would go ahead and provide an update for
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2021 so i hope everything is well and
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until the next video have a good day
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